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Terraform is a great tool but managing AWS Lambda is arguably not one of its strength. In this post I'll describe one approach that I follow to work around this limitation.

Vue 3 is going to be released soon and I wanted to see how easy it is to create the simples possible useful application with it. It turns out it's pretty easy with vue-cli and serverless tools! Here I share my findings.

I love how Serverless enables simple solutions to common DevOps tasks: in this article I describe one simple way to automate MongoDB database backups using AWS Fargate, S3, and CDK.

New blog post:

Terraform is a great tool but managing AWS Lambda is arguably not one of its strength. In this post I'll describe one approach that I follow to work around this limitation.

#terraform #serverless #lambda

https://a.l3x.in/blog/terrafom-lambda-no-archive-in-git/

Weekend nerdy deep dive

"HashiCode Ep. 1: Terraform Remote State Backend Locking"

https://danielmangum.com/posts/tf-remote-state-backend-locking/

Best long read in a while: "Al-Qaida: the terror group that learned the secret of longevity"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/09/al-qaida-the-terror-group-that-learned-the-secret-of-longevity

We need to have a conversation about wombats

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/wombats

#theoatmeal

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